PDF Solutions - PDFS Stock Forecast, Price & News

PDF Solutions, Inc. provides proprietary software and physical intellectual property products for integrated circuit designs, electrical measurement hardware tools, proven methodologies, and professional services in the United States, China, Japan, Taiwan, and internationally. The company offers Exensio software products, such as Manufacturing Analytics that stores collected data in a common environment with a consistent view for enabling product engineers to identify and analyze production yield, performance, reliability, and other issues; Process Control that provides failure detection and classification capabilities for monitoring, alarming, and controlling manufacturing tool sets; Test Operations that offers data collection and analysis capabilities; and Assembly Operations that provides device manufacturers with the capability to link assembly and packaging data, including fabrication and characterization data over the product life cycle. It also provides design-for-inspection (DFI) Systems, such as DFI on-chip instruments; eProbe non-contactless E-beam tool; and Characterization Vehicle (CV) system, which includes CV test chips and pdFasTest electrical testers, as well as Exensio characterization software, designed to analyze the measurements collected from DFI on-chip instruments using the eProbe tool. In addition, the company offers Cimetrix software products that enables equipment manufacturers to provide industry standard interfaces on their products; and software-as-a-service, software related services, and characterization services. It sells its technologies and services through direct sales force, service teams, and strategic alliances to integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, foundries, equipment manufacturers, electronics manufacturing suppliers, original device manufacturers, out-sourced semiconductor assembly and test, and system houses. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have commented on PDFS shares. StockNews.com raised shares of PDF Solutions from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research report on Tuesday, May 24th. TheStreet raised shares of PDF Solutions from a "d+" rating to a "c-" rating in a research report on Monday, May 16th.

PDF Solutions Stock Down 2.6 %

Shares of PDFS traded down $0.71 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $26.96. 99,566 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 143,576. PDF Solutions has a fifty-two week low of $18.45 and a fifty-two week high of $33.78. The stock's 50-day moving average is $22.98 and its 200-day moving average is $24.91.

PDF Solutions (NASDAQ:PDFS - Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 12th. The technology company reported ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.04) by ($0.07). The business had revenue of $33.50 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $31.50 million. PDF Solutions had a negative return on equity of 8.20% and a negative net margin of 14.99%. Analysts forecast that PDF Solutions will post -0.34 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CFO Adnan Raza sold 10,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $20.62, for a total transaction of $206,200.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 100,637 shares in the company, valued at $2,075,134.94. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 16,156 shares of company stock worth $340,906. Company insiders own 11.40% of the company's stock.